Dark Eagles: A History of the Top Secret U.S. Aircraft

McIninch, 'The Oxcart Story,' 38, 39

182

David A. Anderton, North American F-100 Super Sabre (Osceola, Wis.: Motorbooks, 1987), 108-11.

183

Crickmore, Lockheed SR-71: The Secret Missions Exposed, 63, 64.

184

Crickmore, Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, 36.

185

McIninch, 'The Oxcart Story,' 38.

186

Ibid., 41, 42.

187

Crickmore, Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, 36.

188

McIninch, 'The Oxcart Story,' 42.

189

Astronautics and Aeronautics, 1967 (Washington, D.C.: NASA, 1968), 5.

190

Stowe, USAF Test Pilot School 1944–1989, 61, 62. Among Scott's classmates were NASA astronauts David Scott, James B. Irwin, and Theodore Freeman, as well as X-15 astronaut Mike Adams.

191

McIninch, 'The Oxcart Story,' 41.

192

Crickmore, Lockheed SR-71: The Secret Missions Exposed, 25–31.

Sullivan's A-12 was the only U.S. aircraft over Hanoi at the time. Thus, the SA-2 batteries had their best opportunity.

193

McIninch, 'The Oxcart Story,' 41–44.

194

Crickmore, Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, 171.

195

SR-71 Blackbird: The Secret Vigil (New York: Aviation Week video, 1990).

196

Crickmore, Lockheed SR-71: The Secret Missions Exposed, 31–33.